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Having trouble with Aurora and Dsrch [RESOLVED]

SpideyxMan

Posted 02 August 2005 - 01:36 PM

SpideyxMan

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Hi I am trying to clean my computer up and have ran spybot, adaware, and microsoft anti-spyware, all up-to-date. I still have a few pieces of spyware that I cannot remove like this Aurora - Part of the ABI network. Thank you for any and all help!

Please download APT and unzip the contents to a new folder on your desktop.

Open the folder you just created and click on apt.exe and search in the window for c:\windows\system32\hwpjwe.exe.

Open your C:\Windows\system32 folder and search for hwpjwe.exe.
Don't delete it yet, just leave the system32 folder open so you can see the bad file.

In APT again, Select c:\windows\system32\hwpjwe.exe and Click Kill3

Then immediately delete hwpjwe.exe from your system32 folder.

Close APT.

To reboot into SafeMode with Windows XP, you can follow these steps from Microsoft:

Next, please reboot your computer in SafeMode by doing the following:

Restart your computer

After hearing your computer beep once during startup, but before the Windows icon appears, start tapping press F8 key.

Instead of Windows loading as normal, a menu should appear

Select the first option, to run Windows in Safe Mode.

Once in Safe Mode, please double-click on nailfix.exe. Click "Next" in the setup, then make sure "Run Nailfix" is checked and click "Finish". Your desktop and icons will disappear and reappear, and a window should open and close very quickly --- this is normal.

Now open ewido and do a scan of your system.

Click on scanner

Click on Complete System Scan and the scan will begin.

You will be prompted to clean the first infection.

Select "Perform action on all infections", then proceed.

Once the scan has completed, there will be a button located on the bottom of the screen named Save report

Click Save report.

Save the report .txt file to your desktop or a location where you can find it easily.

Now scan with HJT and place a checkmark next to each of the following items:R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page =R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =

Now using Windows Explorer find and remove the following folders/filesC:\WINDOWS\cccpzrdtttu.exe <-- FileC:\Program Files\Ebates_MoeMoneyMaker\ <-- Folder

Now run the CleanUp program:

*IMPORTANT NOTE*CleanUp deletes EVERYTHING out of your temp/temporary folders, it does not make backups.If you have any documents or programs that are saved in any Temporary Folders, please make a backup of these before running CleanUp

Running CleanUp

Start CleanUp by double-clicking the icon on your desktop (or from the Start > All Programs menu).

When CleanUp starts go to the Options button (right side of CleanUp screen)

Move the arrow down to "Custom CleanUp!"

Now place a checkmark next to the following (Make sure nothing else is checked!):

Delete Cookies
This is optional, if you leave the box checked it will remove all of your cookies, at this point removing cookies is a good idea

Empty Recycle Bins

Delete Prefetch files

Cleanup! All Users

Click OK

Then click on the CleanUp button. This will take a short while, let it do its thing.

When asked to reboot system select No

Close CleanUp

Finally, restart your computer back into Normal Mode and please post a new HJT log, as well as the ewido report log from the Ewido scan by using Add Reply